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These days on Reddit no one will read the linked posts and the comments are very circlejerky and lower quality. On the other hand Hacker News has mods (mostly just dang lol) vigilantly enforcing their guidelines to maintain somewhat quality discussions.
Another thing is a lot of reposting, bots, and excessive cross posting resulting in a lot of recycled garbage throughout. I miss the days where social media sites ripped off Reddit content, not the other way around.
People not reading the post was a meme even back in Slashdot days before Reddit or Digg were invented.
It's true, though. I am very guilty of it. I have gotten better at it but 100% of the time I'd click the comments first no matter what. If it seemed worthy of my attention I'd click the link. If it seemed too far-fetched I'd click the link.
I'm realizing now that it's mostly because I don't want to wait the 0.5 seconds for another page to load (ridiculous on my part) and possibly deal with paywalls.
Honestly, it is as much a condemnation of the websites writing the articles as it is a problem with users.
A lot of news articles in particular are all fluff, no substance. Especially the ones later in the news cycle for any given news story can often be summarized by half a sentence and otherwise nothing new if you have been following the story.